Standard for garden-hose pipes and sprinklers



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P. O. WORTHLEY.

*STANDARD FOR GARDEN HOSE PIPES AND SPRINKLERS. No. 271,562. Patented Jan.30, 1883.

Win esses. lhverctoid' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK O. WORTHLEY, OE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

STANDARD FOR GARDEN-HOSE PIPES AND SPRINKLERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,562, dated January 30, 1883.

Application filed July 22, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK 0. WORTHLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Sufl'olk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts,haveinvented a new and useful Standard for Garden-Hose Pipes and Sprinklers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in standards for garden-hose in which the sprinkler and the end of the hose through which the water is delivered are supported by the standard, so as to allow the free play of the water upon a large area of the surrounding land; and the objects of my improvements are, first, to provide a convenient method for supporting the standard in any desired position; second, to provide aconvenientway of attaching the sprinkler to the standard so supported; third, to arrange these parts so as to form a new device combining a hose, sprinkler, standard, and clamp for holding the sprinkler or hose next below the sprinkler. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, to which reference is hereby made.

The arms A A--two or more in number, each provided with abase or one or more pointed prongs, G O, at the lower end-form the standard. They are connected by the joint D. To each arm is attached a jaw, B B, so arranged that when they come together they form a clamp, which fastens the sprinkler or the hose to the standard.

It is immaterial whether the machine is made of wood or metal of any kind; also, whether the jaws or clamps are brought together and 4 tightened by separating or pressing together the lower extremities of the standard.

The practical working of the machine is as follows: Put the sprinkler in the clamp. Tighten the clamp by pressing together or separating the lower ends of the arms, according as the joint is arranged. Then either stick the prongs of the forks in the ground, or, if 5 FRANK O. WORTHLEY.

Witnesses SIMON G. ORoswELL, (J. B. SWEAT. 

